“I’ve been too fucking busy, and vice versa.”
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
“And a tiny looper caterpillar would be there, too, measuring, like a child’s finger and thumb, the rim of the table, and every now and then stretching upward to grope, in vain, for the shrub from which it had been dislodged.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“It is a disposition natural in women,” said Don Quixote, “to slight those who love them, and love those who hate them.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“It is a disposition natural in women,” said Don Quixote, “to slight those who love them, and love those who hate them.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“And all that time I couldn’t work. So much of a novelist’s writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them. War didn’t trouble those deep sea-caves, but not there was something of infinitely greater importance to me than war, than my novel – the end of love. That was being worked out not, like a story: the pointed word that sent her crying, that seemed to have come so spontaneously to the lips, had been sharpened in those underwater caverns. My novel lagged, but my love hurried like inspiration to the end.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
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